Existing archaeological findings support the view that the present village was built in the same area where in the mid 8 th century B.C. the ancient village of Aphitis had originally been built by the people of Chalkis.

Historical reports and the preservation of its ancient name, confirm the residential continuation of the area from ancient times up to the present. Of course Aphitis had been destroyed numerous times by the invaders of the times. The last catastrophe recorded was the one in 1821 during the Greek revolution against the Turkish oppression.

The inscriptions on the walls of the buildings with their date of erection reveal the intense development of the village in the second half of the 19 th century during which period it underwent great prosperity. The old village centre, having followed the natural shape of the ground, developed around the church of St. Dimitrios (1857) and was most probably completed no later than 1920. The village continued spreading to the south and west, very little towards the coast, until it had finally achieved its present shape and size.

Properties were quite big, they had adequate space for other requirements (stable, shed, outdoor furnace etc.) of the inhabitants, who were mainly occupied with farming. Buildings were usually built in the front part of the plot and faced the south so that the roofed verandah, which was widely used, could have as much sun as possible.

The architecture of the houses, which were mostly double-storey buildings were quite conservative, as far as their shape was concerned, but their conservativeness was overshadowed by their originality on detail, which is to be found on other buildings apart from houses (churches, taps, stone fences etc.). In general there are two types of double-storey houses, the broad-faceted with a rectangular ground plan and the square-faceted with a square ground plan. The structure of the inner space and its use was the same in both kinds.

In 1995, the inhabitants of Aphitos, resisting the wide use of concrete in modern villages, and supporting the initiatives of the then president of the village, Vasili Pavli, pushed forward the idea of a traditional village by re-erecting the old stone houses, paving the streets, creating pavements, etc. So the old local porous stone quarries reopened and today every contemporary edifice is built with the local stone.